He played a passive role in the relationship.
他在他们的关系中处于被动地位。
His passive attitude made things easier for me.
他的被动态度使我办起事来容易多了。
They want less passive ways of filling their time.
他们需要不那么消极的方式来打发时间。
Campaigners handed out leaflets on passive smoking.
发起人分发了关于被动吸烟的传单。
Blind children tend to be more passive in this area of motor development than sighted children.
失明的孩子在动作发展这一方面往往比不失明的孩子更加被动。
Because the normal word order is reversed in passive sentences, they are sometimes hard to follow.
由于正常语序在被动句中被颠倒过来了，所以有时很难理解。
Non-consuming activities are active, not passive.
非消费活动是主动的，而不是被动的。
No mechanical devices are used in passive heating systems.
被动的加热系统中没有用到机械装置。
The students turned what could have been a passive interaction into an active one.
这些学生们把原本可能是被动的互动变成了主动的互动。
While they may not be as dynamic as an iPad, textbooks are not passive or lifeless.
虽然教科书可能不像iPad 那样是动态的，但它们也不是被动的或毫无生气的。
Listening is an active, not a passive behaviour, which consists of hearing understanding and remembering.
聆听是一种主动的，而非被动的行为，它包含听到、领会和记住。
Listening is thus an active, not a passive, behavior consisting of hearing, understanding and remembering.
因此，倾听是一种由听、理解和记忆组成的主动行为，而不是被动行为。
And hours of watching TV shows with canned laughter only teaches kids to process information in a passive way.
长时间看带有预录笑声的电视节目，只能让孩子们学会被动地处理信息。
First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.
首先，大多数人没有意识到强大的商业议程正在起作用，让他们处于被动消费模式中。
The enemy were thus reduced to a passive position in which they found it hard to give up the battle and yet had to give it up.
敌人于是就陷入了欲罢不能，而又不得不罢的被动地位。
They show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving.
这表明理解不仅包括被动的同化，还包括主动参与推理和解决问题。
After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change—a state they called learned helplessness.
有过这样的经历后，即使是在能够带来改变的情况下，动物也常常保持被动——这种状态被他们称为习得性无助。
Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi.
由于蚂蚁在行为上扮演着积极的角色，它们培育和控制被动真菌的说法似乎很有说服力。
Last time we talked about passive habitat selection, like plants for example, they don't make active choices about where to grow.
上次我们讨论了被动的栖息地选择，比如植物，它们不会主动选择在哪里生长。
During the whole of this session, their attention is passive; they listen to the music but make no attempt to learn the material.
在整个过程中，人们的注意力是被动的；他们聆听音乐，但不花任何努力在学习材料上。
But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving.
但它们表明，理解不仅包括被动的同化，还包括主动参与推理和解决问题。
We do also have more complex systems that are used for space heating and they fall into two categories, passive and active heating systems.
我们确实也有更复杂的系统用于空间供暖，它们分为两类，被动供暖系统和主动供暖系统。
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